List of presidents of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
| President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica | |
|---|---|
since 1 May 2022 | |
| Term length | One year |
| Inaugural holder | Manuel Aguilar Chacón |
| Formation | 1824 |
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The president of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica is the presiding officer of that legislature.
| President | Tenure | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Republic of Central America | ||||
| Manuel Aguilar Chacón | 1824 November – 1825 January | |||
| Agustín Gutiérrez y Lizaurzábal | 1824 September – November | |||
| Cecilio Umaña Fallas | 1825 April – May | |||
| Manuel Alvarado Hidalgo | 1825 January – February | |||
| Manuel Alvarado Alvarado | 1825 February – April | |||
| Pedro Zeledón Mora | 1825 June – November | |||
| Félix Romero Castro | 1825 November – December | |||
| José María Arias Zamora | 1826 January – February | |||
| Joaquín Rivas Ramírez | 1826 March – May | |||
| Francisco Javier Alfaro Zamora | 1826 May – August | |||
| José Antonio Castro Ramírez | 1827 May – June | |||
| Braulio Carrillo Colina | 1828 March | |||
| José Joaquín Flores Pérez | 1828 September | |||
| Manuel María Peralta del Corral | 1829 November – 1830 February | |||
| Luciano Alfaro Arias | 1830 May – June | |||
| José María Esquivel Azofeifa | 1830 May – June | |||
| Rafael Francisco Osejo | 1831 January – April | |||
| José Gabriel Campo Guerrero | 1831 July – August | |||
| José Nereo Fonseca González | 1831 May – June | |||
| José Francisco Peralta del Corral | 1832 setiembre – December | |||
| José Andrés Rivera | 1834 March – April | |||
| Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava | 1836 August – December | |||
| Francisco Javier Sáenz Ulloa | 1836 January – February | |||
| Miguel Alfaro Saborío | 1837 January – February | |||
| José Julián Blanco Zamora | 1837 March – April | |||
| Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla | 1837 March – April | |||
| Félix Sancho Alvarado | 1837 September – 1838 May | |||
| Free State of Costa Rica | ||||
| Juan Mora Fernández | 1843 August – December | |||
| Juan de los Santos Madriz Cervantes | 1843 June – August | |||
| Félix Sancho Alvarado | 1844 January – May | |||
| Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo | 1844 July – November | |||
| José María Castro Madriz | 1845 November 1844 – December | |||
| Juan Rafael Reyes Frutos | 1846 December – 1846 February | |||
| Manuel José Carazo Bonilla | 1846 March – June | |||
| Nazario Toledo | 1846 September – 1847 May | |||
| José María Alfaro Zamora | 1847 May – September | |||
| First Costa Rican Republic | ||||
| Juan Rafael Mora Porras | 1847 November – 1848 June | |||
| Manuel José Carazo Bonilla | 1848 September – 1849 December | |||
| Francisco María Oreamuno Bonilla | 1850 January – 1856 May | |||
| Rafael García-Escalante Nava | 1857 October – 1858 August | |||
| José María Castro Madriz | 1859 October – December | |||
| Julián Volio Llorente | 1860 – 1863 | |||
| Manuel José Carazo Bonilla | 1860 – 1861 | |||
| Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo | 1861 – 1862 | |||
| Manuel José Carazo Bonilla | 1862 – 1863 | |||
| Napoleón Escalante Navas | 1863 May – August | |||
| Rafael Ramírez Hidalgo | 1863 May – August | |||
| Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Rosales | 1864 – 1867 | |||
| Francisco María Iglesias Llorente | 1864 – 1865 | |||
| José María Montealegre Fernández | 1867 – 1868 | |||
| Francisco María Iglesias Llorente | 1867 – 1868 | |||
| Juan José Ulloa Solares | 1869 January – February | |||
| Francisco Echeverría Alvarado | 1869 May – 1870 April | |||
| Manuel Antonio Bonilla Nava | 1869 – 1876 | |||
| Víctor Guardia Gutiérrez | 1882 – 1883 | |||
| Juan Manuel Carazo Peralta | 1883 – 1886 | |||
| Aniceto Esquivel Sáenz | 1886 – 1889 | |||
| Manuel Aragón Quesada | 1889 – 1890 | |||
| Francisco María Iglesias Llorente | 1890 – 1892 | |||
| Carlos Durán Cartín | 1892 | |||
| Pedro María León-Páez y Brown | 1894 – 1900 | |||
| Francisco María Iglesias Llorente | 1900 – 1903 | |||
| Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno | 1900 – 1903 | |||
| Mauro Fernández Acuña | 1904 – 1905 | |||
| Federico Tinoco Iglesias | 1905 – 1908 | |||
| Juan Bautista Quirós Segura | 1905 – 1908 | |||
| Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno | 1909 – 1910 | |||
| Ezequiel Gutiérrez Iglesias | 1910 – 1913 | |||
| Máximo Fernández Alvarado | 1913 – 1914 | |||
| Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas | 1914 – 1916 | |||
| Máximo Fernández Alvarado | 1916 – 1917 | |||
| Daniel Núñez Gutiérrez | 1917 – 1918 | |||
| Leonidas Pacheco Cabezas | 1917 April – June | Peliquista Party | ||
| José Astúa Aguilar | 1917 – 1918 | Peliquista Party | ||
| Rafael Calderón Muñoz | 1917 – 1918 | Peliquista Party | ||
| Francisco Faerron Suárez | 1918 – 1919 | Peliquista Party | ||
| José Astúa Aguilar | 1919 | Peliquista Party | ||
| Arturo Volio Jiménez | 1920 – 1925 | Republican Party | ||
| León Cortés Castro | 1925 – 1926 | Republican Party | ||
| Arturo Volio Jiménez | 1926 – 1929 | Republican Party | ||
| Alejandro Alvarado Quirós | 1929 – 1930 | Republican Party | ||
| Oscar Rohrmoser Carranza | 1929 – 1930 | Republican Party | ||
| Rafael Calderón Muñoz | 1931 – 1932 | National Republican Party | ||
| Arturo Volio Jiménez | 1932 – 1935 | National Republican Party | ||
| Ricardo Castro Beeche | 1935 – 1936 | National Republican Party | ||
| Juan Rafael Arias Bonilla | 1936 – 1938 | National Republican Party | ||
| Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia | 1938 – 1940 | National Republican Party | ||
| Otto Cortés Fernández | 1940 – 1941 | Democratic Party | ||
| Teodoro Picado Michalski | 1941 – 1944 | National Republican Party | ||
| José Albertazzi Avendaño | 1944 – 1945 | National Republican Party | ||
| Rafael Ángel Grillo Ocampo | 1944 – 1945 | National Republican Party | ||
| Francisco Fonseca Chamier | 1946 – 1948 | National Republican Party | ||
| Second Costa Rican Republic | ||||
| Marcial Rodríguez Conejo | 1949 – 1952 | National Union Party | ||
| Abelardo Bonilla Baldares | 1952 – 1953 | National Union Party | ||
| Gonzalo Facio Segreda | 1953 – 1956 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Otto Cortés Fernández | 1956 – 1958 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Álvaro Montero Padilla | 1958 – 1960 | National Union Party | ||
| Fernando Lara Bustamante | 1960 – 1961 | National Union Party | ||
| Mario Leiva Quirós | 1961 – 1962 | National Union Party | ||
| Carlos Espinach Escalante | 1962 – 1963 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Rafael París Steffens | 1963 – 1964 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Rodolfo Solano Orfila | 1964 – 1965 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Rafael París Steffens | 1965 – 1966 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Rodrigo Carazo Odio | 1966 – 1967 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Hernán Garrón Salazar | 1967 – 1968 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Fernando Volio Jiménez | 1968 – 1969 | National Liberation Party | ||
| José Luis Molina Quesada | 1969 – 1970 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Daniel Oduber Quirós | 1970 – 1973 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez | 1973 – 1974 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Alfonso Carro Zúñiga | 1974 – 1977 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Elías Soley Soler | 1977 – 1978 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Rodrigo Madrigal Nieto | 1978 – 1979 | Unity Coalition | ||
| Ramón Aguilar Facio | 1979 – 1980 | Unity Coalition | ||
| Rafael Grillo Rivera | 1980 – 1981 | Unity Coalition | ||
| Cristian Tattenbach Iglesias | 1981 – 1982 | Unity Coalition | ||
| Hernán Garrón Salazar | 1982 – 1983 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Jorge Luis Villanueva Badilla | 1983 – 1984 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Bernal Jiménez Monge | 1984 – 1985 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Guillermo Vargas Sanabria | 1985 – 1986 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Rosemary Karspinsky Dodero | 1986 – 1987 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Fernando Volio Jiménez | 1987 – 1988 | National Liberation Party | ||
| José Luis Valenciano Chaves | 1988 – 1989 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Allen Arias Angulo | 1989 – 1990 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Juan José Trejos Fonseca | 1990 – 1991 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría | 1991 – 1992 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Roberto Tovar Faja | 1992 – 1993 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Danilo Chaverri Soto | 1993 – 1994 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Alberto Cañas Escalante | 1994 – 1995 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Antonio Álvarez Desanti | 1995 – 1996 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Jorge Walter Coto Molina | 1996 – 1997 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Saúl Weisleder Weisleder | 1997 – 1998 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Luis Fishman Zonzinski | 1998 – 1999 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Carlos Vargas Pagán | 1999 – 2000 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Rina Contreras López | 2000 – 2001 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Ovidio Pacheco Salazar | 2001 – 2002 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Rolando Laclé Castro | 2002 – 2003 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Mario Redondo Poveda | 2003 – 2004 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Gerardo González Esquivel | 2004 – 2006 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Francisco Antonio Pacheco Fernández | 2006 – 2010 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Luis Gerardo Villanueva Monge | 2010 – 2011 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Juan Carlos Mendoza García | 2011 – 2012 | Citizens' Action Party | ||
| Víctor Emilio Granados Calvo | 2012 – 2013 | Accessibility without Exclusion | ||
| Luis Fernando Mendoza Jiménez | 2013 – 2014 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Henry Mora Jiménez | 2014 – 2015 | Citizens' Action Party | ||
| Rafael Ortiz Fábrega | 2015 – 2016 | Social Christian Unity Party | ||
| Antonio Álvarez Desanti | 2016 – 2017 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Gonzalo Alberto Ramírez Zamora | 2017 – 2018 | Costa Rican Renewal Party | ||
| Carolina Hidalgo Herrera | 2018 – 2019 | Citizens' Action Party | ||
| Carlos Ricardo Benavides Jiménez | 2019 – 2020 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Eduardo Cruickshank Smith | 2020 – 2021 | National Restoration Party | ||
| Silvia Hernández Sánchez | 2021 – 2022 | National Liberation Party | ||
| Rodrigo Arias Sánchez | 2022 – 2024 | National Liberation Party | ||